Laurene Powell Jobs Commits $ 50 Million to Create New High SchoolsNews from New York Times: Photo Laurene Powell Jobs at a graduation ceremony for Urban League College Track students in New Orleans in May 2013. Credit William Widmer for The New York Times SANTA MONICA, Calif. â Her husband, Steven P. Jobs, famously helped [...]

News from Fiji Times: THE Government wants all primary schools in the country to have early childhood education centres by 2017. Education Minister Dr Mahendra Reddy said this in Parliament on Friday. Dr Reddy said of the 730 primary schools in the country, 332 do not have Early Childhood Education centres but have Class 1. [...]

News from Business Insider: Colby College/FacebookThe cost of college is only increasing. For many people who are considering having children or already have started a family, the prospect of saving for college can be daunting. Rapidly rising tuition and related costs create the impression of a seemingly insurmountable savings goal. In the past, Wealthfront has [...]

News from IARA – AllAfrica.com:By Vincent Egunyanga Benin — Wife of the Edo State governor, Mrs. Iara Oshiomhole, has assured that the state would always give priority to girl-child education as educating the girl child is similar to educating the nation. Mrs Oshiomhole gave the assurance yesterday at the 2015 edition of the Nigerian Girls [...]

News from AllAfrica.com: editorial Sometime this year, the government came out with strict instructions that all children of school-going age should be in school, and not employed in child labour or roaming the streets. It went even further; parents would be held accountable if they failed to send their children to school because the necessary [...]

News from The Killeen Daily Herald: As parents are sending their children back to school, somewhere in the heaviness of Killeen’s hot, sweltering August air, I seem to be hearing “Hallelujah” choruses rising up all across the neighborhoods. Gone are the days where children go to school to just learn the three R’s: Reading, ’Riting [...]

Paul McCartney crashes collegel graduation band in Winter ParkNews from Bradenton Herald: A Tampa band called Phase5 was playing a graduation party in Winter Park on Saturday when Paul McCartney asked if he could join them on stage for some songs, according to lead singer Josh Walther. WINTER PARK — A Tampa band called Phase5 [...]

News from spyghana.com: Following many cases about girl-child education in Techiman and the nation as a whole, the communication and research team of Center of Posterity Interest Organistion (COPIO), an NGO located in Techiman took the pains to infer much into the situation and to find suggested solution in combating it. Centre of Posterity Interest [...]

News from Sydney Morning Herald: The ABS has revealed that consumer price index increases for childcare and schooling have outstripped price rises in other parts of the economy. Photo: Louie Douvis Comment: NSW childcare minister faces preschool stoush Parents worried that childcare and education costs are hitting their wallets far harder than most other areas [...]